| Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period Contributor(s): Khalidi, Tarif (Author), Morgan, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521465540 ISBN-13: 9780521465540 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in the world. In a work which surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the pre-modern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it sought to answer the many complex questions associated with the discipline of history. The author combines a chronological with a topical approach to place the tradition within its wider intellectual context and socio-political environment, while quotations from historians across the period introduce the English-speaking reader to some of the principal intellectual texts of Arabic Islamic culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 909.097 |
| LCCN: 93051021 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.38" W x 9.3" (1.32 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a work that surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight-hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the premodern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it sought to answer the many complex questions associated with the discipline of history. |